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New offensive coordinator Mike Martz said several interesting things in his brief discussion with the Bay Area media Monday night.

-From his point of view, the 49ers aren’t far from being a good team. Martz continued to say the offense just needed to “pull things together.”

“This thing is so close, so close,” said Martz who watched film of the offense with Mike Nolan before being hired. “The pieces are there. … It’s not like we have to go out and get a bunch of players. It’s not a challenge, it’s an opportunity.”

-Both Martz and Nolan mentioned the key player in the offense is not the quarterback, but Frank Gore. “To build that offense around Frank Gore is really exciting,” Martz said.

-Martz said it wasn’t his decision but that he’d like to keep offensive line coach George Warhop and receivers coach Jerry Sullivan. He has worked with Warhop and he called Sullivan the best receivers coach in the league and said he tried to hire Sullivan a couple of times.

-Martz was asked if he’d try to duplicate what he did with the Rams during the Greatest Show on Turf days. “I think what we do is pragmatic. I think the centerpiece is obviously Frank. He’s playing at such a high level. You try to get everybody up to that level. … To come in and say we’re going to duplicate (St. Louis) is just wrong. It’s just different people, a different situation.”

-Martz said he still wants to be a head coach but doesn’t know if he would get the opportunity. He then said he loves what he is doing.

-Nolan, who coached with Martz in Washington, said he hasn’t seen Martz so excited while watching film of the offense with him.

-When asked if the 49ers were comparable to the Lions offense, when he started there two years ago, Martz said. “No, no, no. This is much further along. This is totally different. This is not even close to where we were with the Lions. This is a much different situation.”

-Martz didn’t say much about his stormy two-year tenure in Detroit where he supposedly feuded with Lions coach Rod Marinelli. “We took this thing as far as we could. It was just a situation where it was time to move on.”

-Martz didn’t comment much why the offense failed last year. “I just don’t feel comfortable commenting on any of that. I just think we need to just kind of pull things together. That’s all I want to say about that.”

NOTES: Nolan said he terminated the contract of running backs coach Bishop Harris and assistant offensive line coach Mark Nori.